71 results for "Morality Play" between $10.00 and $75.00

Pages: 175, Edition: 1, Paperback, Waveland Pr Inc

Fiction - Literary Fiction - Historical

The national bestseller: A medieval murder mystery full of the wonders of the time and lessons for our own time by a master storyteller. The time is the fourteenth century. The place is a small town in rural England, and the setting a snow-laden winter. A small troupe of actors accompanied by Nicholas Barber -- a young renegade priest -- prepares to play the drama of their lives. Breaking the longstanding tradition of only performing religious plays, the group

Free Worldwide Delivery : Morality Play : Paperback : WW Norton & Co : 9780393315608 : 0393315606 : 17 Sep 1996 : The Booker Prize-winning author of Sacred Hunger now offers a medieval mystery filled with the wonders of the time--and lessons for our time. "A bravura performace. . . . The novel is a thought-provoking comedy on the eternal sameness of disaster and the recurrent uses we put to it in art".--Janet Burroway, New York Times Book Review.

          To answer the question proposed by the title there are two aspects which must be considered. Firstly we must decide whether Dr Faustus is a morality play; I will do this by discussing the play's form, content and subject matter in an attempt to categorise the play. I will also offer an alternative argument by saying that the play is in fact a tragedy. Secondly we must decide whether or not it has a moral; to do this I will consider the tone of certain parts of the play, in particular the...

ISBN-10: 0073011207 ISBN-13: 9780073011202. Edition: .

A six page analysis of the way Sophocles' sense of the individual's self-determination grows through his Theban trilogy -- 'Oedipus the King,' 'Oedipus at Colonus,' and 'Antigone.' The paper asserts that by the final play, the outcomes of one's actions have become inevitable because the individual has chosen them, rather than being the result of the machinations of some god. No additional sources.

Morality ~ A Comedy in Three Acts. Three-act comedy by Ludwig Thoma. Translated and adapted by Alma Thieme. Ludwig Thoma came up with the idea for this play while jailed in Munich's Stadelheim Prison in 1906 for insulting that city's "Morality Club" in the political satire-zine SIMPLIZISSIMUS. The play debuted nearly simultaneously in Munich and Berlin in 1908. Alma Thieme has taken Ludwig Thoma's biting satire and made it relevant for a US public. She preserved the turn-of-the-20th-century setting...

Product Description: Here is an in-depth look at the role myth, morality, and religion play in J.R.R. Tolkien’s works such as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion—including Tolkien’s private letters and revealing opinions of his own work. Richard L. Purtill brilliantly argues that Tolkien’s extraordinary ability to touch his readers’ lives through his storytelling—so unlike much modern literature—accounts for his enormous literary success. This book demonstrates the moral depth...

INFO: Two of Europe's current heavyweights collide with United Kingdom's Deal With It and The Netherlands' New Morality on the U.S. press of this 7". Deal With It play metal-infused hardcore in the vein of Cro-Mags and Nuclear Assault while New Morality bring more of a groove, similar to Cold World.

Is there a relationship between religious convictions and terrorist actions? Is there a role, negative or positive, that religious leaders can play with respect to terrorism? Morality and Terrorism: An Interfaith Perspective gathers views from across the analytical and religious landscape to tackle profound questions about the origin, and potential solutions for terrorism.

Synopsis: This six-page graduate paper expresses the views of Mohatmas Gandhi on civil disobedience and achieving change through non-violence, and then compares them to similar themes presented in Henrik Ibsen?s play, A Doll House, and Herman Melville?s novella, Billy Budd. The author notes that the mindless rigidity of such legal structures is what compelled idealistic advocates of non-violent social and political reform such as Gandhi to formulate their doctrines in an effort to bring morality...

This paper will discuss the morality of Jane Eyre, and seek to find the themes that play a part in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. By realizing some of the themes that lie within the book, we can see how Bronte conveys a sense of life in her characters, and makes this book fascinating to read. 2 pgs, no bibliography.